Fun at Home

Tyler has taken an interest in cooking.  We had so many extra bananas a couple of weeks ago that were getting to the over-ripe stage, so we made banana bread.  Tyler helped mash bananas, put the ingredients into the mixing bowl and he was surprisingly good at cracking eggs (Brian apparently taught him how when making waffles!)  He followed instructions about what speed to set the stand mixer on.  The process was a lot of fun, but he had no interest in eating the bread after it was done.

We've had quite a few caterpillar sightings.  Brennan was thrilled to pick up this little friend and even kissed it. 

Tyler didn't like how the caterpillar felt in his hand and after dropping it, he decided to pick it up with a leaf.  The leaf was Brennan's idea.  I think he thought he might get to see the caterpillar put the "Hungry Caterpillar" story into action and chomp through the leaf, but of course it doesn't work that way!

We've had a couple of hot summer-like days and used the little pool to cool off.  We tried coaxing Zelda in, but she wasn't too thrilled.

Debby and Joe were in town over Mother's Day weekend and brought their dog, Andie, with them.  I didn't get a good shot of the two dogs together, but it's funny seeing them together now.  They look about the same size, but Andie is such a playful puppy and Zelda is a couch potato.  The two had fun playing together though and Zelda was particularly intrigued by some of Andie's toys.  Zelda snatched the peanut butter filled Kong pacifier from Andie and wouldn't let go of the thing!  Thankfully, Andie was a good sport about sharing :)  I just thought it looked so funny to see Zelda nursing a binky!